The Missing Witness — Isabel Cabot

Beth Holmes was not a girl to frighten easily, but she knew at once that Honey St. Dean was in trouble. Honey, her roommate, also a nurse at Oaksdale City Hospital, was anything but averse to inventing excuses for not reporting on duty, but she would never stay out without giving advance notice. But today, Honey simply did not show.

And later, as Beth was on duty in the emergency room, tending the handsome young man who had been brought in, apparently the victim of a beating, Honey came to see Beth on a false pretext, a frightened Honey St. Dean, who was unwilling to answer any questions, who took a more than professional interest in the beating victim, and who then disappeared as quickly as she had come.

It was late that night that Beth learned she had been tricked into giving her car keys to Honey -- and that the latter had packed a bag and taken off for some undisclosed destination. And when the young beating victim, Greg Dwyer, came to the apartment in search of Honey, Beth began to fear for the girl's safety. Even the police were looking for the elusive Miss St. Dean, Beth was told -- although the inspector, who came to the apartment, Detective Coles, acted like no policeman Beth had ever seen.

It was her courageous efforts to find her missing roommate, a missing witness to murder, in the at-first unwanted company of the mysterious but oddly compelling Greg Dwyer, that brought Beth to Honey's aid -- and into the hands of a group of vicious criminals who had a fortune to protect -- and would protect it no matter what the cost in lives...